Christian May studied Physical Metallurgy at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology and received his PhD in 1999. From 1997 he was with a vacuum coating system supplier as project manager dealing with large area thin film deposition. Since 2003 he is with Fraunhofer. Beside several management positions his development work was and is focussed on technologies, processes and applications for large area devices with organic semiconductors, especially flexible OLED lighting, organic and perovskite solar cells as well as biodegradable electronics in sheet-to-sheet and roll-to-roll technology.

Currently he acts as Manager Sustainable Technologies for Energy and Electronics and Chief Strategy Officer at Fraunhofer FEP – the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology. Besides being active in numerous projects with industry partners he and his team are active within several national and European funded projects. He acts as Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 funded Open Innovation Test Bed project FlexFunction2Sustain and was elected as Vice President Research of ESNA – the European Nantotechnology solutions Association.